tokapi, I give you my favorite Chinese phrase.
Sorry for stealing your great intelligence in the past, but I am just curious how long you can date back to the history to feel a sort of affinity with the past.
You don't need to be as insane as Nietzsche (I like him, though)
..learn from the west, than challenge the west. That is a famous Japanese quote.
Japan did end the colonization of asia by europe, thereby setting them free to an extent. Although, had they won WW2 these colonies would have been theirs, instead of free.
I have studied Japanese philosophy and tactics for many years.
They are a VERY intelligent and desperate people. Their determination and relentless pursuit of solving problems, and perfection is a result of their nation and it's many geological shortcomings. And how they baited the US into trying to compete with them defys all logic, but they DID! What does the US stand to gain by pushing each other to work as hard and as good as Japan?
When you look at Japan's strengths and weaknesses, they are actually in a most terrible position. They live on a overcrowded island, plagued by earthquakes, lack of raw materials, and nearly worn out farmland. It is totally dependant upon imported good and food from other nations to sustain it's huge population and industry. If the world cut Japan off...it's industry would collapse, and many of it's people would starve to death. This is the bullet that Japan and it's people face everyday, in addition to it's other curses already mentioned.
It's strengths is it's overpopulation of intelligent workers and their loyalty, resolve, and cunningness. If Japan could figure out a way to invent land and resources from water..then and only then could Japan be indepedant and thus free. (dependacy means you are dependant upon someone to sustain you, independence means you are not, thus free)
But they certainly deserve a profound respect, to overcome these pitfalls and actually have their tiny island challenge nations the size of continents!
That is another reason Japanese never surrender...they can't...surrendering to their plight is the same as suicide.
Japan must expand it's empire for it's very survival. Being as they could not take the land and resources they so desperately need by force...today they are buying it, with money made from their high quality labor force.
They are "investing" heavily in foriegn nations property spreading their empire. This in itself gives away their true hand. Why would you buy and build on one acre of land in the middle of your nieghbor's farm? Isn't that a risky venture and investment? If you and your nieghbor have a falling out, and he has superior resources and firepower...you stand to lose your entire investment! And he stands to gain a highly cultivated acre of his land back.
Emperor Akihito and the Japanese people are not stupid, they know the risks involved in this sort of "investment", and have many high paid, high placed people over here protecting their "investments" and encouraging our people to beg them to invest even more. But times are getting tight now over here, and people are starting to wake up and ask questions that our leaders are NOT wanting to answer, problems are surfacing that Japan and our leaders do not want to address or solve.
The solution to our economic problems.... is Japan's worst nightmare.
Sadly, that is the truth....and their deliberate overpopulation tactics have made their plight even worse.
That is why I likened Japan to an overcrowded Alcatraz Island..because if the world teams up and shuts them off...that is exactly what Japan will become.
Although, I really hope it never comes to that. But their continued aggressiveness and underhandedness is going to leave little room for forgiveness again.
Forgiveness is not an opportunity to survive a failed attempt and plot and plan a stronger more effective counter-attack.
Mercy does NOT mean you are not punished...mercy means you are not punished for all eternity.
Someone really high, has set Japan up to become an example and warning to others pursuing these mindsets and goals.
That is what I think anyway.
Minus a few other points, this is what was basically in my report to CIA when they contacted me on the subject.
They seem to have an acute shortage of Japanese agents these days I suppose.
